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Old 02-05-2005
Here's one off the top of my head: "rm -rf"
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Old 02-05-2005
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Originally Posted by JBB873
In fact we are monitoring operations on Unix servers and we would like to track all dangerous commands.
I imagine that if we list all that we can dream up, we'll certainly miss some that were important to you.

Perhaps you'd be more interested in a framework for governing the use of certain commands; both native to the Unix system and those you install.

PowerPak does a nice jobs and provides audit reports. Essentially, you limit your user's access and provide privileged access through this tool.

Thomas
 
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